Context:
source: http://tass.com/society/1019802
Previously...
source: https://www.rt.com/news/235519-ornella-muti-jail-putin/
Showing posts with label Владимир Путин. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Владимир Путин. Show all posts
Putin the Merciless
Context:
source: http://tass.com/society/1019802
Previously...
source: https://www.rt.com/news/235519-ornella-muti-jail-putin/
Russia needs to get its act together
While our American friends show how it's really just child's play, Vova, with his persistent love of Rube Goldberg mechanics, makes himself look like a really bad Bond villain...
James Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Bond villain: "Haha no Mr. Bond, I expect you suffer a suspicious, but recoverable, ailment in a public place, using an easily traceable substance, in the middle of the most tense geopolitical situation since the Cold War, weeks before my country hosts the FIFA World Cup."
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Skripal
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting
Review: Winter Olympics 2018
High above the Olympic village, dastardly Vova Putin flies upon his diabolical meldonium powered Dope Rocket™, sprinkling athletes with his dope juice. - February 26, 2018
The 'Games' this year seemed a bit dull and uninspiring. Perhaps that is just my own perception though. Perhaps there weren't enough Time magazine covers with barbed wire Olympic rings, stories about weird toilets, warnings of 'Black Widows' blowing up planes with toothpaste bombs, or comparisons to the 1936 Berlin Games with premonitions of homosexuals being exterminated, to heighten my attention and excitement. The only bit of drama came from the ever persistent 'Russian Doping Scandal' story.
'Doping' seems to mean a lot of things these days. If you rub the wrong boil ointment on your arse, it's classed as 'doping'. It doesn't mean unusual amounts of asthma medication, or Japanese figure skaters winning gold medals 'doped' up on pain killers though.* Sport is filled with the dopes: the athletes, the officials, the journalists.¹
I liked the pre-recorded 'drones' section of the opening ceremony. Although what I missed was the outrage and accusations of 'State media censorship' when they switched to it, like there was when a back-up recording was used in the 2014 Sochi Games after there was a malfunction in the most important image of the Games: The appearance of the Olympic rings. That meant there was no similar 'feel-good' moment in the closing ceremony, like in Sochi when the organisers mocked themselves over the malfunctioning Olympic rings and the West collectively gasped: 'oh my goodness, Russians must be human too?'.
I thought it very nice that the USA sent vice-president Pence to the games, to sit next to the DPRK representative. The DPRK; the most sanctioned country in the world; the country, we're told, who might blow up the planet at any moment! The USA were unable to send anyone to Sochi though, because "Russia".²
There was no snow in the Republic of Korea, so they manufactured it all. Again [like a broken record]: Four years ago, we heard complaint, ridicule, and mockery, about how the Sochi snow wasn't 'real snow' and how embarrassing it was to have to put it there artificially.³
Alpine skiing: Not bad. Personally, it was a bit of a flop due the German women's team not doing so well. More importantly, their racesuit was the worst I've ever seen (and we thought the 'go faster stripes' of Sochi were bad!). Highlights: Poor American performance; Super-G race where Ester Ledecká pipped Anna [Fenninger] Veith for the gold medal.
All in all, a lackluster Games; very utilitarian. Russia didn't exist; America and China results were woeful.
* http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004254098
¹ I find the whole topic of "drug" use in sport difficult to resolve. Humans are electro-chemical machines, we exist in, and are, chemistry. We can't be measured like the length of a ski, or number of bullets in the magazine of a biathlon rifle. "Drugs" seem like an intangible thing to track without some level of hypocrisy. As an example, there's already a potent stimulant that's classed as uncontrollable: Trimethylxanthine, aka, caffeine. Maybe its legal status is helped by the fact that all these sporting events are sponsored by caffeinated beverages.
² "the 1980's are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back" - Barack Obama.
³ How much energy was used to generate this snow? We'll be lambasted with Global Warming warnings, and how traditionally snowy areas are now snowless due to rising temperatures, meanwhile we'll burn up the planet to put snow back into these places. It seems like a downward spiral.
see also: https://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/search/label/Sochi%202014
The 'Games' this year seemed a bit dull and uninspiring. Perhaps that is just my own perception though. Perhaps there weren't enough Time magazine covers with barbed wire Olympic rings, stories about weird toilets, warnings of 'Black Widows' blowing up planes with toothpaste bombs, or comparisons to the 1936 Berlin Games with premonitions of homosexuals being exterminated, to heighten my attention and excitement. The only bit of drama came from the ever persistent 'Russian Doping Scandal' story.
'Doping' seems to mean a lot of things these days. If you rub the wrong boil ointment on your arse, it's classed as 'doping'. It doesn't mean unusual amounts of asthma medication, or Japanese figure skaters winning gold medals 'doped' up on pain killers though.* Sport is filled with the dopes: the athletes, the officials, the journalists.¹
I liked the pre-recorded 'drones' section of the opening ceremony. Although what I missed was the outrage and accusations of 'State media censorship' when they switched to it, like there was when a back-up recording was used in the 2014 Sochi Games after there was a malfunction in the most important image of the Games: The appearance of the Olympic rings. That meant there was no similar 'feel-good' moment in the closing ceremony, like in Sochi when the organisers mocked themselves over the malfunctioning Olympic rings and the West collectively gasped: 'oh my goodness, Russians must be human too?'.
I thought it very nice that the USA sent vice-president Pence to the games, to sit next to the DPRK representative. The DPRK; the most sanctioned country in the world; the country, we're told, who might blow up the planet at any moment! The USA were unable to send anyone to Sochi though, because "Russia".²
There was no snow in the Republic of Korea, so they manufactured it all. Again [like a broken record]: Four years ago, we heard complaint, ridicule, and mockery, about how the Sochi snow wasn't 'real snow' and how embarrassing it was to have to put it there artificially.³
Alpine skiing: Not bad. Personally, it was a bit of a flop due the German women's team not doing so well. More importantly, their racesuit was the worst I've ever seen (and we thought the 'go faster stripes' of Sochi were bad!). Highlights: Poor American performance; Super-G race where Ester Ledecká pipped Anna [Fenninger] Veith for the gold medal.
All in all, a lackluster Games; very utilitarian. Russia didn't exist; America and China results were woeful.
* http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004254098
¹ I find the whole topic of "drug" use in sport difficult to resolve. Humans are electro-chemical machines, we exist in, and are, chemistry. We can't be measured like the length of a ski, or number of bullets in the magazine of a biathlon rifle. "Drugs" seem like an intangible thing to track without some level of hypocrisy. As an example, there's already a potent stimulant that's classed as uncontrollable: Trimethylxanthine, aka, caffeine. Maybe its legal status is helped by the fact that all these sporting events are sponsored by caffeinated beverages.
² "the 1980's are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back" - Barack Obama.
³ How much energy was used to generate this snow? We'll be lambasted with Global Warming warnings, and how traditionally snowy areas are now snowless due to rising temperatures, meanwhile we'll burn up the planet to put snow back into these places. It seems like a downward spiral.
"Snow" pic.twitter.com/l9G7ZqyF2G
— OIOIIOOIXIII (@oioiiooixiii) February 15, 2018⁴ How uninspired do you have to be to write "Germany" in faux Hangul script and stick it down the front of a racesuit 4 times. This is truly their worst. The blank one in 2010 was sublime in comparison. pic.twitter.com/rwuG1a8yOK
— OIOIIOOIXIII (@oioiiooixiii) February 18, 2018see also: https://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/search/label/Sochi%202014
2013: Путин (Putin) on Snowden
Vova plays the game.
originally published: 2013, June.
video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BkQw9wBpcE
bonus content...
Putin's Secret Dope-Rocket and the Cybernetic Army of Superhuman Russian Athletes
Putin gives you wings!
Woke to radio this morning; someone saying "Putin is responsible". Dont know what he's responsible for this time; jumped out of bed laughing
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) July 19, 2016
context: http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2016/0722/opinion/ban-all-russian-athletes-at-rio--russian-doping-411674.htmlPutin has a big needle filled with the dope juice. He jabs it in the athletes bum-bums whenever they visit the Kremlin.
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) July 20, 2016
more info: http://thechronicleherald.ca/world/1382083-the-latest-russian-athletes-back-us-based-klishina-for-rio
What if Donald Trump is Putin?
context: https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/715649757167951877What if, Donald Trump IS Putin? Like in a rubber mask. That's how they both can be Hitler! It all makes total sense pic.twitter.com/rugrEkVWh8
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) March 31, 2016
The Firebird and the Grey Wolf
originally published in 2012 - references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsarevitch_Ivan,_the_Firebird_and_the_Gray_Wolf
original working title: "The Last 7 Minutes". Referencing: https://t.co/ZQQ4xXczuv
background: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/6185950722
Crypto Putin
Ad on TV: starving Greek offered food by friendly brown bear https://t.co/OCNlIaqP3V Are there lines to read between? pic.twitter.com/b7982ynKqY— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) July 8, 2015The timing of this advertising campaign is either unfortunate, or genius. Perhaps both! (Or perhaps neither).
context: http://uk.businessinsider.com/no-russia-is-not-about-to-bail-out-greece-2015-4?r=US
video: https://vimeo.com/130982458
Direct Line with Putin (2015)
Sponsored by Sennheiser pic.twitter.com/rmxnpAC51E
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) April 16, 2015
5 live streams, 5 different thumbnails. [5 different Putins?] pic.twitter.com/iwIdNDnbev
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) April 16, 2015
And now Путин (Putin) is asked if he'd like to clone himself...
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) April 16, 2015source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=envLkVsIzQs
Moar Newz from The Moscow Times
The headline reads: "Russia Leads Forestry Destruction Ranking". Oh my god :-o Putin is chopping down all the trees, the bastard!
The body of the article then informs us that this is due to [wild] fires. (Maybe Putin started the fires though - am I right, am I right?)
What annoyed me most was the photograph used. It's a famous photograph, taken by John McColgan, titled "Elk Bath"*. Far from being a picture of a Russian forest fire, the image was taken at Bitterroot National Forest, Montana, USA, in the year 2000.
Just like the headline, the photograph was used for it's emotive power. A monstrous inferno, raging towards some awestruck deer - "Don't burn Bambi, Mr. Putin. Don't burn Bambi!"
The article also mentions that Brazil occupies the second place ranking in tree-cover depletion since 2001, and is a "fellow BRICS nation". I wasn't aware that tree cover was criteria for membership of BRICS. Never miss an opportunity to get a few jabs in with the little knives.
I have no disagreement that more should be done to prevent forest fires, in Russia, or anywhere else.
context: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-leads-forestry-destruction-ranking/518599.html
Elk Bath, by John McColgan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Bath
* The accreditation given is to "Pixabay", a website offering Public Domain images. "Elk Bath" is in the Public Domain, and does indeed appear on Pixabay http://pixabay.com/en/forest-fire-brand-fire-62971/
Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin walk into a bar....
Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin walk into a bar, and begin discussing the methods they use for assassination. Tony Blair says: "I make it look like suicide in the woods". Barack Obama says: "I make it look like dangerous driving in the city". Vladimir Putin says: "I shoot them with a fucking gun outside my front door. Fuck you, bastardos! Nostrovia!"
Горбачёв (Gorbachev) in the news
Горбачёв (Gorbachev) in the news #
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11246794/Mikhail-Gorbachev-says-Vladimir-Putin-views-himself-as-second-only-to-God.html
source: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/mikhail-gorbachev-nobody-will-shut-my-mouth-video/511564.html
Another example of the war for your mind
related: http://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-biggest-wars-are-fought-for-your.html
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